[U-Boot] Patman avoiding bounces

[Simon Glass]

Hi Chris,

On 26 August 2017 at 18:17, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> +Simon, Tom, Wolfgang,
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently sent a few patches using patman and ran into two problems.
>>
>> The first is a set of undeliverable addresses. This isn't a big problem,
>> more of an annoyance but it also means that anyone replying to my patches
>> also gets the same set of bounces. Would adding a blacklist feature be a
>> good idea? Should such a list be stored in-tree? It might also be worth
>> integrating with git's mailmap to handle those who are still active under a
>> new address, that's probably something that would be useful in-tree for
>> other uses.
>>
>
> I've encountered this for several times. Yes, it's quite annoying.

Yes that sounds like a nice feature. I think it should be stored in-tree.

Also some people have email addresses with commas, e.g. "Bloggs, F.
<f.bloggs at napier.co.nz>' and this current confuses patman.

>
>> The other issue is the number of addresses hitting the mailing list limit
>> requiring moderator approval. I'm not sure what the exact limit is but
>> presumably it's something in the mailman config. It would be great if
>> patman had some (configurable) knowledge of this limit an only added Ccs up
>> to this. I'm less certain of a heuristic for which addresses to drop,
>> obviously the known inactive ones mentioned above are easy to drop. After
>> that I'm not sure maybe base it on number of commits to the affected files
>> (i think get_maintainer.pl already gathers this info).
>>
>
> I think the patch cc idea is to make sure everyone that is probably
> affected by this patch will get direct email (not from ML) sent to
> him/herself. If we cut down the cc list to match the ML limit, that's
> probably not a good idea. Maybe we can increase the ML limit? Tom or
> Wolfgang could comment on this.

Well the messages get manually reviewed so perhaps this doesn't matter
too much. It might be nice for patman to warn to expect an email from
the list but that no action should be needed.

>
>> Thoughts? If i get some time I'll try and make a proof of concept for the
>> blacklist.
>
> Regards,
> Bin

Regards,
Simon